And everything will work out fine.

So you all remember the pothole of death incident, right? Well as it turns out, I still have some stiffness and pain in my right ankle over two months later, which prohibits me to run or dance, so I decided to go and get it checked out by a Sports Medicine Doctor this week.

Turns out said doctor thinks that I have some sort of impaction happening in the joint where my tibia meets my foot (how’s that, for layman’s terms? – I am pretty much as layman as you can get when it comes to medicine). Anyways, to make a long story short, I got some x-rays done yesterday and the doctor informed me takes about six months to heal in normal circumstances. So no running or dancing for me until roughly December or January. Pooh.

Ever since I came back from Argentina in early July, I’ve been going to a few sessions of Hatha Yoga per week at Rama Lotus Yoga, which I’ve found to be accommodating to my ankle handicap, and have been walking to work as per my usual routine. But I find that I really miss running and dancing and that I feel really lazy going about my week without my three 5K runs and my hour and a half of Grand-Jetté-to-Earth-Wind-and-Fire-for-eight-minutes-jazz-dance fun. The Sports Medicine doctor recommended swimming yesterday, and I think I’ll give it a shot, but I find that swimming requires a lot more overall effort than running.

Swimming: Walk/bike/drive to pool, get changed, take off makeup, swim, shower, dry off, get dressed, reapply makeup, try to do something with hair, come back home by chosen means of transportation (may also include the occasional five-minute-headbanging-to-get-water-out-of-my-ears session).
Running: Put on running clothes, run, change into normal clothes again. Voilà.

But I guess I will suck it up for the sake of physical activity for a few months. I also really like swimming so I’m sure I’ll enjoy it once I get into the swing of things. Or maybe I’ll just sue Larry O’Brien, aka Lex Luther for his shoddy pot-hole-filling-budget-managing-abilities and get liposuction with the settlement money. We’ll see.